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urban development
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PropertyProf Blog
Land Use in Palestine
By propertyprof
The Atlantic's Armin Rosen takes a visit to Rawabi, the first Palestinian planned city in the West Bank.Rawabi represents something totally new -- a visionary Palestinian-directed private sector project, with…
Land Use Prof Blog
Garnett on Redeeming Transect Zoning
NDLS colleague and super-mom Nicole Stelle Garnett (Notre Dame) has recently posted Redeeming Transect Zoning?, 78 Brook. L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming). In it, she continues the skeptical evaluation of New Urbanists as successors…
PropertyProf Blog
The Elusive Keys to Gramercy Park
By propertyprof
Fascinating piece in the New York Times over the weekend about the only fenced and gated, private park in Manhattan -- Gramercy Park. The focus of the article is the…
Real Estate & Construction
Miami’s Commercial Real Estate Focus Shifts To Urban Centers
This is a guest post by Tere Blanca, President and CEO of Blanca Commercial Real Estate. U.S. Cities Growing Faster than Suburbs [caption id="" align="alignright" width="112"] Tere Blanca, President &…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
BRA Approves $615M Project to Fill the Filene’s Crater
It looks like the 5-year-old hole in the ground where Filene's used to sit in Downtown Crossing is finally going to be filled. Last night, in a much anticipated vote, the Boston Redevelopment Authority…
PropertyProf Blog
Living Without Parking
By propertyprof
Oregon Public Broadcasting looks at the rise of new apartment buildings in Portland that offer no offstreet parking. The article explains that developers are constructing more parking-less buildings because of…
PropertyProf Blog
China’s Population is Really Large, Ctd.
By propertyprof
The blog has touched on this before, but it's just staggering how fast China's cities are growing. This week NPR chronicled the popluation explosion that's occuring in China's inland cities. …
Land Use Prof Blog
More Buffalo Boosting: Artfarms!
I just can't enough of Buffalo these days. Yesterday, I posted about our "zombieness" and today I learned of something fun being done with some of our vacant land (up…
PropertyProf Blog
Thirty Years of Urban Growth
By propertyprof
The Atlantic Cities blog has composed a bunch of stunning images from data collected by NASA satellites. The GIFs show, in dramatic fastion, the growth of urban regions around the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Gade on Olympic Villages
Check out this interesting article and fascinating slide show on Olympic Villages over the years. As Matt always tells us, everything can be a land use issue and the Olympics…